My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

Adjust a Photo Manually

Although you can use the Enhance button to fix many images automatically, you might want more control over parts of your picture. To adjust an image manually, do the following:

1. In iPhoto, click a picture to edit and click the Edit button at the bottom of the iPhoto window to display editing tools (see Figure 29-1).

2. Click the Adjust button. An Adjust window appears, displaying different sliders you can move to modify the appearance of the image, as shown in Figure 29-5.

3. (Optional) Drag the Exposure slider to lighten or darken the image.

4. (Optional) Drag the Contrast slider to emphasize differences between dark and light areas of the picture.

5. (Optional) Drag the Saturation slider to modify the intensity of colors in a picture. ...